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Angela Bassett joins the cast of Marvel’s “Black Panther”

3:40 am Nov. 22, 2016

Angela Bassett has signed on to join the cast of “Black Panther,” among the slew of Marvel movies to film in Atlanta, the studio announced.

She will play Ramonda, mother of T’Challa, aka Black Panther. Chadwick Boseman stars in the title role. His character debuted in Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War,” which also filmed in Atlanta. (Other Marvel projects that have filmed here or will include “Ant-Man,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Guardians of …

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Open casting call for Marvel’s “Black Panther” with Chadwick Boseman this weekend

7:33 am Nov. 3, 2016

Marvel’s upcoming “Black Panther,” with Chadwick Boseman in the title role, will film in Atlanta from January through May 2017, as Marvel projects “Ant-Man,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Captain America: Civil War” and “Guardians of the Galaxy 2” have previously. An open casting call for “Black Panther” extras is planned for this weekend.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the OFS facility, 6305 Crescent Drive NW in Norcross.

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Our interview with the cast of locally filmed “Almost Christmas”

7:06 am Nov. 2, 2016

There’s a scene in the locally filmed “Almost Christmas” where a belligerent booze hound smacks a concerned relative across the face when she suggests dialing down the drinking. In another, the hamsters Santa brings on Christmas Eve become cat food by Christmas Day.

Then there’s the scene where someone opens a gift and finds it monogrammed with someone else’s initials, and a real knee-slapper where a seating-chart misunderstanding prompts a neurotic …

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Tyler Perry teams up with “The Walking Dead”

8:51 am Oct. 21, 2016

Tyler Perry and the hit AMC series “The Walking Dead” are business partners now.

Perry’s newly acquired Fort McPherson, a former army base just southwest of downtown Atlanta, is now home to 14 sound stages. His movie “Boo! A Madea Halloween,” in theaters today, filmed there as did the HBO adaptaion of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” starring Perry’s good friend Oprah Winfrey.

And now there’s a new sheriff in town: Rick …

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Oprah Winfrey on the Atlanta set of “Henrietta Lacks”

6:18 pm Aug. 24, 2016

Oprah Winfrey is back in Atlanta for the HBO film adaptation of Rebecca Skloot’s nonfiction work “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Oprah portrays Henrietta’s daughter Deborah Lacks. The movie filmed at a Buckhead church on …

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